Alexander Smith Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

  Alexander Smith

  Book, Night, Garden

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.221, tredition

• Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

  Alexander Smith

  Book, Night, Library

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.222, tredition

• Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

  Alexander Smith

  Book, World

• In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

  Alexander Smith

  Flower, Book, Past

  Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”

• Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.

  Alexander Smith

  Lying, Book, Soul

  Alexander Smith (1853). “Poems”

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